ganoncrotch said:
PerturbedKitty said:
VitroBahllee said:
I feel sorry for everybody who is actually feeling bad about what this guy is claiming he 'did' at Gamestop. This is almost certainly a fabrication designed to make people feel as awkward as possible. It's sad that it seems to be working. |
lol.. no, i actually did that. i tried convincing some of my coworkers to do it too. i was so proud when one of them swayed the customer into buying a new copy of punch out instead of a used one. using the simple technique of just asking them if they wanted a new one for "only" 5 dollars more.
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It was 7 to 9 years ago and you still are so proud about it working one time with this copy of a game? That really makes me think just how much success you had with pushing your plans to make people give more money to Nintendo, if you have 1 success that sticks in your mind almost a decade later. Probably ended up putting more people off Nintendo games trying to sway them to pay more for the games.
I mean think of what you would be doing in a bigger picture... now I'm not going to go into this in too much detail just the very light parts of
(this is all based on if what the OP was suggesting he was doing was actually happening, more than 1 time 9 years ago, I'm not crediting OP with having any success which would have caused this to happen!)
- you were lowering the number of games Nintendo players as a whole are buying, lowering the amount of games which they actually experience and the total number, while increasing the game numbers being sold on the rival systems, if you are just talking about 30 euro games for example for every 210 euro spent on gaming your Nintendo gamer gets just 6 games in the store, rather than the 8.4 ps/360 games which go out the door - unhappy customers with less games to play for the same money. (And this is the era of the Wii/360/PS3, the Wii gamer was already getting a lot less bang for their buck.)
- you are trying to lower the number of pre-owned Nintendo products which gamestop sells... I know you were 17-19 but seriously, you surely understood that GS makes 100%+ profit margin on Pre-owned titles right? where as on new sales they make as little as 5-10% in doing what you (imagined) were doing you would have been lowering gamestops profit coming in from Nintendo related product, when a store makes less profit from something you know what they do with it? I'll give you a hint, it isn't pump more money into it because Gamestop would like Nintendo to make more money, it is to lower its shelf space and give that space to the systems which make GS the most cash.
Just like... those points alone are as many keystrokes as I'd be willing to spend on this I think, if the fact that you are causing the gamers you would rather be happy and content with their choice of products are getting less games and the store which sells the games you love would have less interest in stocking/selling those products doesn't get through to you then nothing really will I fear.
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